Binary logistic regression

Definition taught in Logistic regression, part of Statistical learning

Binary logistic regression

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Taught in Logistic regression
Part Statistical learning
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The Bernoulli likelihood and log-likelihood are

\begin{align*} L(\beta)&=\prod_{i=1}^n p_i^{y_i}(1-p_i)^{1-y_i},\\ \ell(\beta)&=\sum_{i=1}^n\bigl\{y_i\log p_i+(1-y_i)\log(1-p_i)\bigr\}, \end{align*}

with p_i=\sigma(\beta^\top x_i) and y_i\in\{0,1\}.

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Interpreting a logistic regression · Logit link · Odds ratio · Likelihood function · Iris data · Sigmoid function · Softmax is multinomial logistic regression · A finite stationary point is a global maximiser

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